SIGRID KOPFERMANN
1923-2011, GermanySigrid Kopfermann (born in Berlin in 1923 – died in Düsseldorf in 2011) studied from 1941–45 at the Staatliche Hochschule für Kunsterziehung; her teachers were Willy Jäckel and Bernhard Dörries. With the support from people like Werner Schmalenbach, the director of Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, and the art historian Wieland Schmied, she managed to establish herself on the art market quite early on. From 1965 onwards, she lived with Otto Fuhrmann in Düsseldorf. After his death, she established the Kopfermann-Fuhrmann Foundation.
The artist received important awards, including the Böttcherstraße Kunstpreis Bremen. From 1949 to 1991, her works were continuously exhibited. She had solo exhibitions at numerous institutions, including Kunstverein Hannover (1959), Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven (1969), Goethehaus New York (1969) Städtische Galerie Schweinfurt (1990), Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, and Kunsthaus Nürnberg (1991), as well as at the galleries Brusberg Hannover (1962), Kabinett Bekker vom Rath in Frankfurt (1962, 1985, 1989), Günther Franke, Munich (1966, 1970). Group exhibitions took her works to the Musée d’art moderne de Paris (1959, 1965), to Galerie Buchholz in Bogota (1959), the Museo de Arte Moderna de Rio de Janeiro (1960), to Bristol UK (1962), New York (1965), and Vaud in Switzerland (1965). Her works can be found in more than 25 museum and renowned private collections, including Sprengel Museum Hannover, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Kurpfälzisches Museum Heidelberg, Städtisches Museum Oldenburg, Sammlung Sprengel, Sammlung Bahlsen und Sammlung Beindorff, Hannover, Bundesrat and Bundestag, and the Collection of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn. Between 1949 and 1989, Sigrid Kopfermann received 24 commissions for art in public space.
Courtesy Galerie Albrecht, Berlin.
Works at Galerie Albrecht
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